Recorded on February 5, 2024.
Dr. Limor Yehuda from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discusses how the concept of "collective equality" can be a tool for improving peacemaking efforts in ethno-national conflicts-focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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About the Book:
The ongoing Gaza conflict underscores the human costs of the enduring Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite international goals and laws for conflict resolution, accepted liberal theories and human rights frameworks fall short in addressing contemporary group conflicts. Dr. Yehuda's book Collective Equality examines the limitations of common solutions like territorial partition, liberal democracy, multiculturalism, and minority rights and demonstrates how these limitations brought about the use of democratic power-sharing arrangements as a central tool for peacemaking in group/ethno-national conflicts. However, employing ethnic criteria in these arrangements has drawn criticism from liberals and human rights bodies. To address this tension between peace arrangements and human rights, Collective Equality proposes a novel theoretical and legal framework. The concept of collective equality asserts that fostering fair cooperation and equal relations among ethno-national groups, including both national minorities and national majorities, represents the only alternative to political exclusion, hierarchical relations, and the violent struggle for superiority that characterizes ethno-national conflicts.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Limor Yehuda is a legal scholar who studies ethno-national conflicts and transitions to peace. She is a senior research fellow and director of the “partnership-based peace” project at Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, a lecturer at the faculty of law at the Hebrew University, and a research fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions at Haifa University. She is the author of the recently published Collective Equality: Democracy and Human Rights in Ethno-National Conflicts (Cambridge University Press). In addition to her academic work, Limor is a founder of The Israeli-Palestinian movement A Land for All. Previously Limor clerked for President Aharon Barak at Israel’s Supreme Court and was a practicing human rights lawyer and director of the human rights in the occupied territories department at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI).
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